Five years after requesting access to documents looted from Palestinian institutions during the 1948 war, the Israel State Archives provided historian Shay Hazkani with a list of files which will remain concealed until 2040 in the name of national security. Some of these files detail pre-1948 plans for an independent Palestinian state.
Category: DOCUMENTS
Title: Documents looted from the Palestinian political institutions remain locked in the Israel State Archives until 2040, Haaretz, “Who’s Afraid to Reveal the Palestinian ‘Secrets’ of 1948?”
Date of publication: December 4, 2022